Question juridique clé
Whether payments made by relatives for gifts chosen from a wedding list were entrusted values under Art. 138 CP.
Solution extraite
No. In the concrete arrangement, the payments were made as advance purchase prices under the sales contract; the seller could dispose of them freely.
Motifs extraits
The choice from a pre-established list showed the buyers’ intention to purchase specific items, but not a common intention that the seller merely hold funds for a third party. The court qualified the relationship as a sale between the relatives and the merchant, possibly accompanied by ancillary arrangements, not as an entrusted-payment relationship.